sod house

Noun

Meaning

a house built of sod or adobe laid in horizontal courses

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My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four human generations ago - there were still enough wild bison on the Plains that she was afraid lightning storms would spook them and they would trample her home. Derrick Jensen

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